Please, do not pass Atlantic City Rod Kennedy Jr., ROD KENNEDY JR. is the author of "Monopoly: The Story Behind the World's Best-Selling Game" (2004, Gibbs Smith) and the originator of "Atlantic City, 125 Years of Ocean Madness" (Ten Speed Press).

Chimps don't draw Edward Albee, EDWARD ALBEE has written more than 30 plays, including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" This essay is adapted and excerpted from the Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield Foundation Address, which Albee delivered at the induction and award ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters this month. Albee was elected to the academy in 1966.

Europe turns back the clock Charles A. Kupchan, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.